Welcome to the show, I'm Jordan Harbinger.

As always, I'm here with producer Jason DeFilippo.

With all the news lately about the homeless problem in Los Angeles and vaccination drama

here in California bringing back diseases we thought we'd gotten rid of for decades,

I thought it was high time we started talking about something more cheerful and upbeat,

namely, dying of something even more horrible, antibiotic resistance trains of bacteria.

You may have heard that overuse of antibiotics has been creating resistant organisms or

super bugs, but what you might not know is that we're actually not developing new weapons

in this battle against nasty bacteria.

Today we'll speak with Dr. Matt McCarthy.

He's a staff physician at New York Presbyterian Hospital and an infectious disease specialist.

We're going to learn how these super bugs evolve, why they're so concerning, and why we're

seemingly just sitting here with our hands in our pockets waiting to be wiped out by

a plague of our own creation.

I found this discussion fascinating and I think you will as well.

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All right, here's Dr. Matt McCarthy.

I read super bugs and it's a little scary because of course everyone nobody wants to

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